Golang Developer

WPP ES; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP ES is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services in production. The role focuses on Golang development, RESTful APIs, and secure authentication/authorisation patterns, with responsibilities spanning integration with third-party services and complex distributed systems.

You will contribute to building robust backend platforms, maintain and optimize services, and collaborate closely with product, design and engineering peers to deliver reliable,

Qualifications

• Golang development experience in production environments.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns.
• Experience integrating with third-party services and APIs.
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience developing and operating backend services at scale.

Skills

Golang

REST APIs

AuthN/AuthZ

Third-party APIs

Distributed systems

Backend services at scale

Tools

Git

GitHub Actions

Job description

Must-have skills

• Golang development experience in production environments
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns
• Experience integrating with third-party services and APIs
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience developing and operating backend services at scale

Engineering Practices

• Test automation (unit, integration and end-to-end testing)
• Git and modern source control workflows
• CI/CD pipeline experience, including GitHub Actions
• Code review participation and feedback
• Debugging and production issue investigation
• Agile delivery experience

Cloud & Operations

• Experience deploying and operating cloud-hosted applications (AWS preferred)
• Application monitoring and observability
• Logging, alerting and operational support
• Infrastructure and environment management fundamentals

Professional Skills

• Ability to break down requirements into deliverable work
• Effective collaboration with Product, Design and Engineering peers
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Ownership mindset and accountability for outcomes
• Ability to work independently with moderate direction

Nice-to-have skills

• Platform & Architecture
• Database design and querying (SQL)
• Event-driven architectures
• Messaging technologies (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, etc.)
• Domain-driven design
• API gateway and service mesh patterns
• Experience with high-traffic consumer-facing platforms
• E-commerce experience

DevOps & Reliability

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK)
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Site Reliability Engineering practices
• DORA metrics understanding
• Resilience and failure-testing practices

Performance Engineering

• Performance and load testing experience
• Experience with tools such as Artillery, JMeter or k6
• Capacity planning and performance analysis

Tooling & Delivery

• Vercel platform experience
• Analytics and experimentation platforms
• A/B testing frameworks
• AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)

Security

• Secure SDLC practices
• OWASP Top 10 knowledge
• Identity and SSO integrations
• GDPR and privacy considerations

Leadership & Influence

• Mentoring junior engineers
• Leading small technical initiatives
• Running technical design discussions
• Contributing to engineering standards and best practices